The NCAA Committee on Infractions placed the University of Alabama on three years' probation for "major violations" uncovered in the school's 2007 textbook investigation.

UA, a “repeat offender”, according to the NCAA, was forced to vacate football victories from games during the 2005, 2006 and 2007 seasons in which one of seven "intentional wrongdoers" participated. Selected individual records in men's and women's track and men's tennis were also vacated. There were no scholarship losses for any Alabama sports program.

Wow probation leads the players to believe they WILL GET PAID! Thats nice Busted 2007 Champions 2009 2011, USC Busted and will probably win it all this year!! THE SYSTEM WORKS!!

(CBS) A report from Sports Illustrated claims members of Alabama’s 2012 National Championship team received banned substances produced by Sports with Alternatives to Steroids prior to the BCS championship game.

S.W.A.T.S. representative Christopher Key reportedly showed SI a video of him passing out “chips” to members of the Crimson Tide team two days before the BCS game. These “chips” are stickers containing a substance banned by the NCAA that athletes secure to their wrists and above their heart for an energy boost. Alabama linebacker Alex Watkins later confirmed the effectiveness of the “chips,” the report states.

These S.W.A.T.S. products reportedly contain IGF-1, a natural, anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth. IGF-1 is banned by the NCAA,

The company, Sports with Alternatives to Steroids, or “S.W.A.T.T.” is based in Alabama and Key said he sold approximately 40 bottles in total to members of Alabama’s football team; 20 of those bottles were purchased by players at a New Orleans hotel room as the team prepared for the BCS national championship game against LSU last year, and then another 20 bottles were sold to members of the team at the apartment of an Alabama player 10 days before the nationally televised game:

The company, Sports with Alternatives to Steroids, or “S.W.A.T.T.” is based in Alabama and Key said he sold approximately 40 bottles in total to members of Alabama’s football team; 20 of those bottles were purchased by players at a New Orleans hotel room as the team prepared for the BCS national championship game against LSU last year, and then another 20 bottles were sold to members of the team at the apartment of an Alabama player 10 days before the nationally televised game:

Let em get money, steroids or anything else they want. Half of them can't speak English, and all EVERYBODY wants is TO WIN! And while I'm at it, take out that damn instant replay. That's the biggest joke going.

Several University of Alabama football players sought out a peddler of alleged — and controversial — performance-enhancing substances and items in the nights leading up to the Crimson Tide's victory over LSU in the Jan. 9, 2012, BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans, according to an article in Sports Illustrated.

A story in the Feb. 4 edition of the magazine, posted online Tuesday, looks into the practices and claims of a Fultondale-based business, Sports With Alternatives to Steroids (or S.W.A.T.S.), its owner, Mitch Ross, and employee Christopher Key. The story alleges that the company has provided its wares to players at Alabama, Auburn and LSU, as well as several high-profile professional athletes.

here is a person who is ripping the most successful college football team in the current era for infractions and other "cheating" going-ons. Why does it matter?

You can't be successful without bending the rules to some degree in college athletics so who cares. If your sole purpose is to watch Alabama's reign come to a crashing halt and all the scandals come unearthed like at Miami, Ohio State, Texas A&M, and USC to name a few of the top powers that have been slapped on the wrist in recent history, then good for you but nobody cares.

Miami still won with Davis and Coker. Ohio State won with Tressel and USC won with Carroll. Texas A&M didn't win jack with Francchione or Sherman but they are winning now with Sumlin. Geez the next thing you are going to rant about is how Oregon got all those speedsters from Texas and the South.

At this point no new ground is being broken so let it go. Nick Saban is the reason Alabama has been turned around and who cares about benefits or not going to class. That's besides the point because all programs are doing that to some degree.

I hope you wouldn't be downtrodden if you went back and looked at Minnesota's 1940s dominance and discovered the same thing back then as well. The information and coverage is just more accessible now.

He does Capper007 had a big play on Bama in champ game last 2 years... I never seen him fade Bama... He is just stating the truth and soon it will all come out...Cheating will come out it might take 7 years or more but, at some point the program will be destroyed will massive hits by the NCAA... The day Saban leaves thats when u know its close...Till then Bama will cheat all the way to history, then it will all be taken away

TUSCALOOSA - As long as Julio Jones and Mark Ingram pay, they can play.

That was the ruling that the NCAA announced Wednesday evening. The organization said the sophomore starters on Alabama's football team will remain eligible on the condition of repayment for "impermissible benefits" they received.

The NCAA is requiring Jones and Ingram to repay the value of the benefits to charity.

Jones, a star wide receiver, and Ingram, the starting running back, took a fishing trip in the spring that was paid for by an Athens businessman.

Alabama investigated the case and concluded that the businessman, 56-year-old Curtis Anderson, is not an Alabama booster. The university self-reported the violation to the Southeastern Conference.

The NCAA announced its decision in a four-paragraph statement early Wednesday evening:

"The NCAA student-athlete reinstatement staff has reinstated the eligibility of University of Alabama football student-athletes Julio Jones and Mark Ingram based on a condition of repayment.

"According to the facts of the case submitted by Alabama, the student-athletes received impermissible food, lodging, transportation and entertainment from an individual with whom one of the student-athletes had become acquainted prior to enrolling in college.

"Consistent with NCAA membership requirements, the institution reported the violation and declared the student-athletes ineligible. As part of the reinstatement request, the institution required the student-athletes to make repayment of the value of the impermissible benefits to charity.

"During the reinstatement process, the NCAA staff considers a number of factors including guidelines established by the NCAA Division I Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement, relevant case precedent, the student-athlete's responsibility for the violation, as well as any mitigating factors presented by the institution."

Alabama athletic director Mal Moore said Alabama officials "are gratified that this matter has been resolved."

"Our compliance department, the SEC and the NCAA worked closely throughout this process," Moore said in a written statement issued by the media relations staff, "and we appreciate the professional manner in which it was handled."

Anxiety about the eligibility of Jones and Ingram was beginning to rise with each day as Saturday's season opener against seventh-ranked Virginia Tech drew closer.

Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke twice about the case Wednesday, but both times were before the NCAA announced its ruling

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